The Pisgah Post
Pisgah Presbyterian Church
Woodford County, Kentucky
April 2010
The Joy of Easter
As we celebrate the joy of Easter, I am reminded of
a passage from Max Lucado’s book, The Applause of
Heaven. I think it shows us the
true source of joy that does not
fade away.
“‛I have everything I need
for joy’ Robert Reed said.
‛Amazing!’ I thought. His hands
are twisted and his feet are
useless. He can’t bathe himself. He can’t feed himself.
He can’t brush his teeth, comb his hair, or put on his
underwear. His shirts are held together by strips of
Velcro®. His speech drags like a worn-out audio
cassette.
Robert has cerebral palsy.
The disease keeps him from driving a car, riding a
bike, and going for a walk. But it didn’t keep him from
graduating from high school or attending Abilene
Christian University, from which he graduated with a
degree in Latin. Having cerebral palsy didn’t keep him
from teaching at a St. Louis junior college or from
venturing overseas on five mission trips.
And Robert’s disease didn’t prevent him from
becoming a missionary in Portugal.
I heard Robert speak recently, I watched other men
carry him in his wheelchair onto the platform. I watched
them lay a Bible in his lap. I watched his stiff fingers
force open the pages. And I watched people in the
audience wipe away tears of admiration from their faces.
Robert could have asked for sympathy or pity, but he did
just the opposite. He held his bent hand up in the air
and boasted, ‘I have everything I need for joy.’
His shirts are held together by Velcro®, but his life
is held together by joy."
Faithfully,
Vic Priebe
Pancake Breakfast & Easter Egg Hunt
April 3, 9:00a.m.
It is becoming a spring tradition in Versailles for
Pisgah Church to put on an Easter activity for the
children of the community. This year will be no
different.
Our Mission: to worship God,
study the Scripture, practice the
teachings of Jesus.
Festivities will kick off at 9:00a.m. with a pancake
breakfast. After the breakfast the children and families
can all gather around for an Easter story.
At 10:30a.m., the dash for the
eggs will begin. Every child who
attends is guaranteed to get tons of
Easter Eggs during their quest as
there will be youth assistants
strategically placed throughout the
hunting area to ensure a fair playing
field.
The Easter Egg Hunt and
Pancake Breakfast is a fundraiser event for Pisgah’s A
Light in the Attic Youth Group. This year is especially
important because the youth will be raising money to go
towards their summer mission trip.
In July, the youth group will be taking part in the
Burnamwood Appalachian Mission (BAM!) project. For
one week, the youth will stay at Camp Burnamwood in
Estill County as their home base. Each day they will
venture out into the surrounding communities of
Eastern Kentucky to do various mission-based projects
and help people who need assistance.
So, mark your calendar, call your neighbors, and
bring your kids to the Pancake Breakfast (small donation
requested) and the Easter Egg Hunt (free) on April 3,
starting at 9:00a.m.
If you have any questions about the Easter festivities
or the Mission Trip, please contact Melissa Scott
(859.321.2183) or Cathy Johnson (859.806.1574).
Pisgah’s Organ
The Koehnken and Grimm organ at Pisgah was
originally built in 1890. However the organ was donated
to Pisgah in 1928 and was installed downstairs and to
the right of the pulpit. It’s not clear exactly when the
organ was moved upstairs to its current location. The
organ is referred to as a “tracker” organ meaning that all
moving parts are mechanical rather than electric. A
tracker is a rod, of wood, that connects the keys or pedal
with the valves that open and close air to the pipes.
Originally air flowing through the pipes was provided by
bellows powered by a hand pump. Today, the only
electrified part of the organ is the blower that now
moves air thru more than 700 pipes. Tracker organs are
now making a strong return and are increasingly being
preferred by today’s organists and organ builders.
But our instrument is showing its years of service
and is now in need of significant repairs to many of the
mechanical parts including the pedals. You can help
restore the organ by donating to the Memorial Organ
Renovation Fund.
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Greetings from Mission and
Evangelism
“For the beauty of the Earth, for the glory of the
skies” …comes to mind as we witness spring spread
across the Bluegrass. It was during another seasonal
transition when Mission & Evangelism introduced a new
service project for Pisgah members to support in
recognition of Veterans’ Day, 2009. In our outreach to
serve God and His Kingdom, M & E is charged to seek
local and global causes for our church family to support.
In addition to sending personal care packages and
notes to our own men and women deployed in military
service today, M & E selected to support the Thomson
Hood Veterans’ nursing home in nearby Wilmore. T-H
is a 300 bed facility providing long and short term care
through skilled nursing care and rehabilitation for
Kentucky residents. Opened in 1991, T-H has serviced
over 2000 vets in its state of art facility. We learned that
over 40 of the present 270 patients did not have family
and had various immediate clothing needs including
pocket T-shirts, sweat shirts, pajamas and grip socks.
M&E asked the congregation to join us in a clothing
drive for Veterans’ day.
Do you remember Joe Johnson’s announcement as
he striped away various layers of sweat shirts? Dear
Pisgahterians and the Youth Group responded in good
faith and contributed beyond our expectations. Our
small church reminded us of “The Little Engine That
Could”. Thank you.
Pam Stilz and I had the pleasure of delivering the
collected clothing to T-H and experienced a tour of the
facility. We visited wards staffed by physicians and
nursing staff, a library, craft room, T.V. lounges, outdoor
patios, a game room, a well equipped rehabilitation
room, dining halls, a gift shop. The surrounding
grounds were well manicured. The many patients we
encountered were resting or enjoying life together. Many
had smiles and comments for us.
We learned that there are several ways to assist at T-
H. We could visit with residents, play games, work in
the gift shop or craft room or read to a resident. M & E
started our association with the vets by collecting
clothing and will consider future active participation with
the veterans. Stay tuned to M & E’s infomercials and
bulletins to learn how you can outreach to our military
veterans. Consider joining the M & E committee at our
next meeting April 15 at 7:00p.m.
“For the love which from our birth, over and around
us lies.”
“Lord of all, to Thee we raise this our hymn of
grateful praise!”
In God’s loving grace,
Bobbi Sweeney
Youth Take a Stand against World
Hunger
On Friday, April 23
at noon, the Pisgah
Presbyterian youth
group, A Light in the
Attic, will join in an
international movement
to fight hunger. Our
youth group has
participated annually in World Vision’s 30 Hour Famine
for many years. This is a mentally and physically
challenging learning experience, and yet each year our
youth eagerly choose to endure personal hunger while
they participate in activities designed to teach them about
the hungry and starving people of the world.
Pisgah’s youth will each begin their famine on their
own at home or at school. That evening, they will gather
at the church where the youth will only be allowed to
consume water or juice for the remainder of 30 hours.
Hunger related games, activities, personal prayer,
reflection and scripture reading will continue through the
night and all the next day. On Saturday, the fast will be
broken at 6pm with the serving of Holy Communion.
This will be followed by a small feast that most people
who are experiencing hunger do not get, but our youth
are lucky to receive.
Pisgah’s youth are serious about serving God and
fighting world hunger. The 30 Hour Famine is an
effective way for them to get a ‘taste’ of world hunger
and see through the eyes of over one billion of the
world’s people who do not get enough to eat. In case
that number (1,000,000,000) is too big to grasp, that’s
one out of every seven people go hungry on God’s
bountiful planet Earth.
For more information about the 30 Hour Famine,
contact Melissa Scott, Cathy Johnson, or any member of
A Light in the Attic.
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2010 Lenten Campaign Report Our budget situation is good at this time. If
everybody will keep up the good work giving and
Thanks to your volunteer effort watching expenses it should be another good year at
and the effort of numerous Boy Scouts Pisgah.
and their parents, this spring we have Jud Davis
seen improvements in several areas
around our church:
Pisgah Scholarships
Academy Building
Attention 2010 graduating high school seniors and
New faucet in kitchen. college students: Scholarship applications are now
Heat and air “installed” in the upstairs available in the church office. The submission deadline
middle school room. is April 15, 2010. Persons who are presently members
Blue room termite and mildew problem exposed. of Pisgah Church and who are supporting, nurturing and
Drape hangers repaired. participating in the fellowship and life of the Church are
Dripping faucets repaired. able to apply. Those seeking aid from this scholarship
Emergency Exit lights replaced. must be anticipating attending an accredited college,
university or post-secondary vocational school as a full-
Grounds
time student for the 2010-2011 academic year.
Dead or dying trees removed (walnut lumber available,
Scholarships are awarded one year at a time for a
call Phil Bisbee).
maximum of four years for the purpose of
Many, many rocks and limbs picked up and disposed of
undergraduate studies. In order to be considered the
(Thank You Scouts!).
applicant must have all application materials submitted
Garage by the deadline. Please return your application, essay
Cleaned up and organized. and transcript to the church office at the attention of the
Window framing completed. Trustees. If you have any questions, please contact
Garage is now raccoon-proof. Michael Jones at 859-494-5193.
Farm
Water leak repaired.
Fence rows cleaned up (Thank You Scouts!). Life in the Church
Rotted fence removed.
Fortunately, not all the work has been completed. Baptisms:
So it will still be possible to get a little fresh air and On January 31, we celebrated the
exercise, free of charge, on the third Saturday of each sacrament of baptism with Matthew
month thru August. Taliaferro Wolf.
Thanks again to everyone who donated their
Saturday mornings to work and improve our church Sympathy was extended to:
property. We simply could not have gotten the work Cathy Johnson and her family on the death of Cathy’s
done without you. husband, T. J., on March 6 in Lexington.
Your Property Committee

A Note from the Administration

Committee
We are already coming to the end of the first quarter
of the year and our budget situation is still looking good.
The March 15th Treasurers Report shows we are 21% of
the way through the year and our pledged income is at
25% of budget. Our unpledged income is slightly off at
15% of budget, we will continue to monitor this area to Dear Pisgah Family,
make sure it does not become a problem later in the year.
I would like to hank my wonderful church family for
Our total income is good as we are at 23% of budget
all the love, prayers, support, food and flowers provided
which means we are 2% ahead of budget at this time.
to us during T. J.’s illness and passing. With you all, we
We are looking good on the expense side of the
will make it through this difficult time.
report as well. We are currently 19% of budget for the
Sincerely,
year and 21% of the way through the year. This means
Cathy, Andrew &
our committees and staff are still doing the good job of
Taylor Johnson
holding down expenses they have been doing all year.
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Happy Birthday to You in April

Snippets
1 Margaret Karsner
o Congratulations to Frank Lake who was 2 Sunny Dunlap, Lucy Lagrew MacCarthy
commissioned a Kentucky Colonel by Governor 4 Sheila Baker
Beshear and also received an Outstanding Youth 5 Jan Botkin, Lela Mitchell
Leadership Award from State Representative Carl 9 Abe Fosson
Rollins. 11 Becky Moore
o Glenn Fister was a member of the Southside 12 Missie Wood
Elementary School academic team that finished 2nd 13 Jim Miller
in the District 71 of the Governor’s Cup. 14 Janet Lake
o We recently received a note from Lola Stokes 17 Tom Clark, Martha Jane Hutcherson, Alice
Hagan saying that she used to pump the organ Kiviniemi
before it was electrified. She also played the pump 16 Chase Butler
organ downstairs for one year before a “real” 19 Phil Wilder, Christine Brown
organist was hired. 20 Anissa Davis
21 Bobby Stokes
We are always on the lookout for more “Snippets.” Help 22 Ligia Jones, James Lagrew, Caleb Martie, Dan
us keep this column going by sending in any interesting McHatton
little tidbits you hear! 24 Travis Jones
25 Daniel Wilds
26 Phil Bisbee
27 Jessica Lynn, Margaret McIntyre, Beth McDaniel,
Rebecca Watts
29 Phil Lacy

And in early May…

1 Taylor Johnson
2 Ann Harris, Doris Henton
5 Laura Shropshire
6 Jean Springer
7 Lisa Johnson

Please help us keep this list up to date!

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